In this position you will be working on Platform Engineering team for Cloud Pack for Data Product

What you’ll do:

• Platform engineering refers to the process of designing, building, maintaining the underlying infrastructure and tools necessary to support and enable software development, deployment, and operations at scale.
• The responsibilities of a platform engineer includes (but not limited to):
• Designing and building the underlying infrastructure, such as servers, networks, and storage systems, that support the software applications and services.
• Developing and managing the tools and services necessary for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and deployment automation.
• Defining and implementing the best practices for system configuration, health check monitoring, and performance optimization.
• Ensuring the overall quality, security, compliance, and reliability of the platform.
• Collaborating with software development teams to understand their needs & requirements and providing guidance and support to help them build and deploy their services on the platform.
• Managing the platform’s lifecycle, including installs, upgrades, patching, and retirement

How we’ll help you grow:

• You will have access to all the technical training courses you need to become the expert you want to be
• You will learn directly from senior members/leaders in this field”

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of professional experience in software development using functional and/or object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Python, typescript/javascript
• Hands-on experience on DevOps tools like Jenkins, GIT, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible etc
• Kubernetes Certification will be an added advantage
• Used Jenkins or similar tools to create CI/CD pipelines.
• Managed Docker Orchestration and Docker Containerization using Kubernetes, Openshift etc
• Expertise in Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu etc.)
• Working knowledge of Ansible based install/deployment automation.
• Programming skills using languages such as Java/Python
• Good knowledge in Shell Scripting/Bash, setting up Jenkins pipelines
• Familiarity in integration of heterogenous services in a hybrid environment
• Experience with relational and non relational databases
• Familiarity with IBM Cloud or AWS or Azure is a plus”

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with any one modern programming language like NodeJS, Javascript, Python, GO.
• Experience with Source control management (eg Git): to enable teams to work together to manage changes to source code
• Knowledge of any automation testing framework.
• Experience with containers, containers orchestration software, cloud platforms.
• Experience automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments using tools like Jenkins.